Student-Developed Environmental-Impact Assessment Tool Released for Grasshopper
Cardinal LCA, an early-stage environmental-impact assessment tool developed by Jessica Chen (MDes…
Topic Energy
Materials, buildings, landscapes, cities, and urbanization are all overtly connected energy hierarchies that must be lucidly understood as the basis of any design agenda for energy today.
“ResilientHub” wins third place in Solar Decathlon Design Challenge
“ResilientHub,” a project by a team of Harvard Graduate School of Design students, received third…
ResilientHub
by Kuan-Ting Chen (MDes EE ’22), Sihui (Iris) Chen (MArch I ’21), Andrew Gibbs (MDes…
Power and Justice in the Lone Grid State: Abby Spinak and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre on the crisis in Texas
Newspapers this week are swamped with headlines like, “What Went Wrong…
LOW-ENERGY | HIGH-RISE
by David Ling (MArch '20) — Recipient of second prize in the…
Further Reading: Eve Blau’s Baku: Oil and Urbanism
Baku—like Dubai and other major cities flush from the oil industry—has seen an upsurge of…
Democratic Energy: Abby Spinak on the relationship between climate change and capitalism
It is difficult to discuss the ongoing consequences of climate change without discussing its relationship…
The Humid Threshold: Cooling hot, humid climates via membrane dehumidification
by Pamela Lucia Cabrera Pardo (MDes '19) — Recipient of Daniel L Schodek Award for…
“Regenerative Empathy” exhibition shares studio’s findings with the French community that inspired it
Humans have exploited soil—truly, much of nature—for millennia. Soil can hold eras’ worth of stories…
Regenerative Empathy: Complex Assemblages in a Shared Environment
Regenerative Empathy: Complex Assemblages in a Shared Environment explores the relationship between humans and…